The Nigerian political climate is certainly smoggy. The sky is so cloudy that you cannot see with clarity what is up and round there. Yet 2023 is a pregnancy that we know the due date. Whether the delivery will be an election that will usher in a new government or ...

When in the 30th day of May, 1967, the General Odumegwu Ojukwu, of blessed memory, the Ezeigbo gburu gburu and the then leader of the Eastern Regional Government of Nigeria declared Biafra as an independent state from the rest of Nigeria, it was dubbed as a secessionist movement. There was ...

Crypto currency has become a topical issue globally and can no longer be ignored, irrespective of how you feel about it. It is a thing many countries are beginning to love and hate, reject and accept all at the same time, and the list of countries in this conundrum are ...

As the trial of Robert Kelly continued in its eight day in the city of Brooklyn in New York on Monday, an accuser testifying for the prosecution has told the court how the now disgraced singer raped her, a 17-year-old fan at the backstage of his concert, moments after a ...

The governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has been described as weapon of mass destruction for the people of Imo State and the entire Southern Region following his “recent stand on national issues” which does “not support the interest of his own people”, according to Barr Williams Ukonu, a ...

The trial of R. Kelly, the R&B star and multi Grammy award winner has commenced in Brooklyn, New York City, with a damming opening comments and characterization of R. kelly from the US federal prosecutor who have tried to sell the singer to the jury as a “predator” a sex ...

The house of the All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be falling apart, and may soon not be able to hold anymore. This is a reasonable the fallout from the Wednesday decision of the Supreme Court, irrespective of the fact that it was in favour of the party. Eyitayo Jegede ...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire says 18. 2 million Nigerians were infected with viral hepatitis, as awareness, reporting, diagnosis and treatment of Hepatitis B and C remained low in the country. Ehanire said this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja in commemoration of the 2021 World Hepatitis ...

After long battle with the Nigerian government under president Mohammadu Buhari, a court of competent jurisdiction has declared Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife innocent, discharged and acquitted. El-Zakzaky is the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). The IMN was proscribed by the Nigerian government and since then ...

In this year`s Bar final examination of the Nigerian Law School, about 75 per cent of the students were successful. Twenty persons passed with first class out of a total of 4, 350 successful candidates who participated in the March 2021 Bar Final Examination of the Nigeria Law School. The ...

At the 14th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (NAEE) in Abuja on Wednesday, the Secretary General of OPEC, Dr Mohammad Barkindo while presenting a keynote address made some disclosures relating to the effect of the covid-19 pandemic in the global oil & gas industry. Speaking for ...

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu`s lawyer, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor has alleged that the British government may have connived with Nigeria and Kenya in Nnamdi kanu`s “abduction” in Nairobi and the extra ordinary rendition to Nigeria that followed the abduction. Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a ...

While addressing a group of Nigerians in the US, Amb. Gabriel Aduda, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke on the plan of the Nigerian mission in the US to expand passport offices in other clear the backlog of passport applications. Particularly, he made reference to immediate plan ...

In a rare relief, the High Commission in London has now commenced delivering of finished international passports to Nigerians within the UK. This was confirmed by a Palydom reporter on Monday at the High Commission. Palydom can confidently report that applicants for the Nigerian international passport were required to complete ...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday swore-in the 57 newly elected Local Government and Local Government Development Council chairmen and vice chairmen in the state. Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony at Lagos House, Ikeja, Sanwo-Olu urged the new council executives to always put the residents first in ...

If you think you were the only one confused about three words - Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and Covid-19, may be you were wrong. Our check revealed many people had same confusion. In fact, many people used them interchangeably in error. That`s exactly why we set out to help you get things ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is now in London, the United Kingdom (UK), where he will participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s aircraft arrived at the Stansted International Airport, London at about ...

Jeff Bezos is today a household name globally. He is known in the world of business and technology. Bezos is a man known for big things and big projects. He has yet shown another side to his personality. After his historic space flight, Jeff Bezos have gifted $100 Million to ...

In an event organized in Abuja on Sunday by the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Amb. Zubairu Dada, the Minister for State for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Federal Government was willing to create an enabling environment that would encourage direct investment by the diaspora. Dada added that Nigerians ...

The Director-General (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was a guest at a webinar to celebrate the National Diaspora Day on Sunday. She spoke on the need for Nigerians both at home and abroad to continue to make positive contributions through investments in Nigeria in other ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the N982.7 billion supplementary budget for 2021 into law. The Presidency presented the budget to the National Assembly to address urgent security and COVID-19 needs of the nation. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, who confirmed this in ...

DEVELOPING STRORY: Today`s slated trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) failed to go on as planned. Reason is because the government’s elite security outfit, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) who has Nnadi Kanu in their custody failed to produce ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: The UK Homes office has commenced long planned deportations of migrants from various countries back to their countries. The first flight took off last Wednesday carrying asylum seekers from Zimbabwe. The deportation flight to Zimbabwe is just the very first in more of such long-haul flights for mass ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: Scientists from the United Kingdom are now saying that the second dose of neither the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines shows enough immunity against covid-19 in the long run. They now back the proposals for Covid-19 booster shots which is gradually beginning to gain momentum. A recent study by ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: Former Gov. Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State has turned the table against one Chinyere Igwegbe, who petitioned the police against him. Both parties just traded places in a new case wherein Ohakim is now the accuser, while Chinyere Igweke is now the defendant. Chinyere Igweke is now under ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: It was no doubt a great relief for legal practitioners in Nigeria when the Court of Appeal recently held that the provisions of Section 25 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011, (as amended) does not apply to them.   In a case between FRN and Chief Mike ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: The news space race is here but this time is not just between the state actors as we know them. The billionaires space cowboys are fast heading there and they plan to get there on their own company built space ships. Jeff Bezos was the first to announce ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: Polyandry is defined by Wikipedia as “a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time”. This has a chance to become lawful in South Africa, and some are not happy with this development. Polygamy which is the reverse case where ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: It a worring situation, learning that the European Union is raising strong doubts over the authenticity of many Covid-19 vaccines donated to African countries by COVAX. This development has been of great concern to the African Union and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) who ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: The Anambra APC primaries slated for Saturday, the 26th of June has come and gone but the controversy it generated is yet to settle down. Senator Andy, formerly of the PDP was declared winner by the APC panel in charge of the primary. The chairman of the APC ...